Third Window announced what is likely their final release for the year - coming in December we have Mitsuo Yanagimachi's Fire Festival, which was screened under the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
It's available for preorder and you can now buy directly from Third Window's own webshop.
Synopsis
When developers arrive in a rural, seaside village with plans to construct a marine park, the divide grows between the village fishermen and the woodmen, led by a solitary boorish lumberjack, Tatsuo, who engages in bizarre rituals to appease the mountain goddess that he worships. When the waters become polluted with oil, the villagers consider it an act of sabotage on the planned urban development and Tatsuo takes the blame for the incident. He is only able to redeem himself through a shocking act which is revealed at the “fire festival.” Based on a real-life incident, Fire Festival is a spare, disturbing reflection on the loss of humanity amidst the drive to modernisation.
